bell hooks Quotes
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.
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I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.
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Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.
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They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'
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When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
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There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. After that we stayed in a rented house for the next 15 years.
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I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.
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The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.
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Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.
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Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.
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I have found that women have so much unleashed power that they don't really utilize because they don't have confidence in themselves about who they are and what they can do.
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And I says back to him, 'Calvin, sounding like an educated man don’t make you educated,' and he says back to me, 'I'd rather be ignorant and sound educated than be educated and sound ignorant,' and I said, 'Why?' and he says to me, 'Because if you sound educated then nobody ever tests you to find out, but if you sound ignorant they never stop.'
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I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.
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If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.
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Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.
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I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.
